From: owner-curiouser@smoe.org (curiouser) To: curiouser-digest@smoe.org Subject: curiouser V2 #18 Reply-To: curiouser@smoe.org Sender: owner-curiouser@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-curiouser@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-List-Info: http://www.io.com/~mcurry/curiouser.html curiouser Monday, June 26 2000 Volume 02 : Number 018 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: whirligig cover [Carolyn Andre ] Re: Susan in Chicago [Carolyn Andre ] ADMIN: Various stuff [Michael Curry ] Re: ADMIN: Various stuff [Carolyn Andre ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 21:58:44 -0500 From: Carolyn Andre Subject: Re: whirligig cover Meth commented: >I turned on the radio last night and was stunned to hear somebody besides >Susan singing "Through The Bitter Frost And Snow"! > >It turned out to be Whirligig, from their new album, with Lisa Mosciatello >on vocals. I wasn't too enamored with it -- it was at half the tempo of >the original, and I've never liked Mosciatello's voice all that much. > >Still, it was pretty cool to hear a cover of one of Susan's songs. :) for your aesthetic comparisons: Whirligig's page at Prime CD http://www.primecd.com/whirligig/ a 1:30 clip of Lisa Moscatiello's interpretation. Low end RealAudio (sorry about that - but it takes less space on the site, among other things) Also, Susan sings harmony vocals on the album track. I can hear them when listening to the album, but the sample doesn't include the chorus. BTW - I first heard Lisa & Whirligig do the song in February of '99 at the Folk Alliance in Albuquerque. It was indeed one of those odd musical experiences, the kind that strike when you first hear & get to know a song when done by one person (whether or not the original writer/performer) and then hear another rendition! As to the comparisons: I kind of look at the Whirligig and "original" Susan McKeown versions as I do books and the movies made of them - two different animals, each with their own virtues. On the record, the slow-temp "Bitter Frost" segues into an instrumental "Faux Reel" - whose tempo does not pick up in contrast to the vocal piece as much as other tracks on the album do; the combination works, but I think I'm also partial to a more up-tempo interpretation of the song, even if another 'not Susan' version. (altho, differing here from Meth, I do enjoy Moscatiello's voice on some of her Whirligig work and most of her solo material) I'm now waiting semi-patiently to hear more news of Susan's own album progress ... Regards, Carolyn Andre candre@house-of-music.com - ----------------------- Chicago, IL / USA Support Independent Music! Use the Internet http://house-of-music.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 00:25:09 -0500 From: Carolyn Andre Subject: Re: Susan in Chicago Well, I haven't seen any posts about Friday's show - and I know Susan said that someone from one of the two lists (ecto & curiouser) was there (who were you? I missed meeting you!! ... with the red coat at the table in front of Johnny) Susan & Johnny Cunningham and Aiden Brennan played a great show at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago this past Friday night. (the fairly new "upscale folk venue" in the city). I enjoyed it immensely - a combined opportunity to hear both Susan do Susan and a stripped down interpretation of "Peter & Wendy" sans mime troupe. The program was similar to the IMT show that Jeffrey posted about the other week - the first set a combination of originals (both songs and fiddle tunes) and traditional, the second set an excerpted Peter & Wendy. I know that much of the audience was familiar with Johnny from his visits with the Celtic Fiddle Festival, and was quite happy to hear the chuckles, roars and applause that the P&W set drew. (well, show up to hear traditional Celtic music and hear a warped Peter Pan instead -- *could* be disconcerting!). It was also great to hear the intro by DJ Rich Warren (host of the long-running "Midnight Special" folk program and the "Folk Stage" on WFMT radio in Chicago) - he specifically commented about Susan's voice & how she uses it to interpret/complement the traditional & the contemporary. Yes, I'll stop teasing those of you who haven't yet had an opportunity to hear Susan or the Susan/Johnny combination. And - I do have some new tour dates that I'll be putting up on the website soon, by the way! Regards, Carolyn Andre candre@house-of-music.com - ----------------------- Chicago, IL / USA Support Independent Music! Use the Internet http://house-of-music.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 16:56:18 -0400 From: Michael Curry Subject: ADMIN: Various stuff Hi all, I've been kinda letting the administrative stuff for curiouser slide for a while, which is the reason you're seeing a couple of older messages show up on the list today. They bounced to me for various reasons and I wasn't checking up on the folder where they got stored. I'll try to pay better attention in the future.... Michael ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 17:36:53 -0500 From: Carolyn Andre Subject: Re: ADMIN: Various stuff At 03:56 PM 6/25/00 , list-keeper Michael wrote, among other things: > > I've been kinda letting the administrative stuff for curiouser >slide for a while, which is the reason you're seeing a couple of >older messages show up on the list today. They bounced to me for >various reasons and I wasn't checking up on the folder where they >got stored. I'll try to pay better attention in the future.... er, and *I* will pay better attention to under what e-mail I subscribed to various lists!! So, kind of on-topic, what is everyone listening to right now, in absence of Susan and while awaiting news of the new album? (I'm bouncing between old October Project, Jill Tracy (ok, odd but I seem to listen to that pairing - Mary Fahl's voice & Julie/Emil's darker lyrics match Tracy's noire style), Cowboy Junkies (misc. titles), Canadian singer-songwriter Sam Baardman (a find from this year's Folk Alliance - its a combination of his lyrical imagery & some of the subtle & not so subtle eco-political lyrics), Dar Williams, and some of Lisa Moscatiello's techno ventures with Arthur Loves Plastic. ) Regards, Carolyn Andre - ------------------------- candre@house-of-music.com Support Independent Music! Use the Internet ------------------------------ End of curiouser V2 #18 ***********************